Computing and combinatorics
Subtitle: 7th annual international conference, COCOON 2001, Guilin, China, August 2001 : proceedings
By: Jie Wang (ed.).
Contributors: Wang, Jie.
Series: Lecture notes in computer science -- 2108.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 602
Subjects: Computer science -- Congresses; Combinatorial analysis -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: COCOON 2001.
Description: ThepapersinthisvolumewerepresentedattheSeventhAnnualInternational ComputingandCombinatoricsConference(COCOON2001),heldAugust20-23, 2001,inGuilin,China. Thetopicscovermostaspectsoftheoreticalcomputer scienceandcombinatoricsrelatedtocomputing. Theconferencewasheldin cooperationwiththeChineseAcademyofSciencesandChinaComputerFed- ation. Submissionstotheconferencethisyearwereconductedentirelyonline. A totalof97papersweresubmittedintimetobeconsidered,ofwhich50regular papersand16shortpaperswereselectedbyaninternationalprogramcommittee consistingofEricAllender,BernardChazelle,DannyChen,JianerChen,Francis Chin,Kyung-YongChwa,RodDowney,ErichGr¨adel,YuriGurevich,Steven Homer,ToshihideIbaraki,TaoJiang,Ker-IKo,D. T. Lee,XueminLin,Maurice Nivat,R. Ravi,Rudiger ¨ Reischuk,SeinosukeToda,JieWang,LushengWang, GuoliangXue,andMihalisYannakakis.^ Theauthorsofsubmittedpaperscomefromthefollowingcountriesand- gions:Australia,Austria,Bangladesh,Canada,China(includingHongKongand Taiwan),CzechRepublic,France,Germany,India,Israel,Italy,Japan,Korea, NewZealand,TheNetherlands,Poland,Russia,Singapore,Spain,Switzerland, U. K. ,andU. S. A. EachpaperwasgiventoatleastthreeProgramCommittee members,whoinsomecaseswereassistedbysubreferees. Inadditiontothe- lectedpapers,theconferencealsoincludedtwoinvitedpresentationsbyBernard ChazelleandAviWigderson. Topromoteyoungresearchers,theHaoWangAwardthisyearwasgiven toapaperselectedfrompaperswrittensolelybyauthorswho,atthetimeof submission,wereeitherstudentsorhadreceivedtheirdoctoraldegreeswithinthe previous?veyears. Iamhappytoannouncethattherecipientofthisawardwas Xiang-YangLiforhispaper“GeneratingWell-Shapedd-DimensionalDelaunay Meshes”.^ Iwouldliketothanktheprogramcommitteeco-chairYuriGurevichforhis strongsupportandallprogramcommitteemembers,theirsupportsta?,and subrefereesfortheirexcellentworkwithindemandingtimeconstraints. Iwould alsoliketothankallauthorsforsubmittingtheirpaperstotheconference. I amgratefultoSteveTateforlettingmeusetheACMSIGACTelectronics- missionservice,MinghuiLiforhelpingmecreateconferencewebpages,and RichardCheekforprovidingsystemsupport. Finally,Iwouldliketoexpressmy gratitudetoDing-ZhuDu,XudongHu,andalllocalorganizersfortheirhard workinmakingthismeetingpossibleandenjoyable. August2001 JieWang ProgramCommitteeChairs: YuriGurevich,MicrosoftResearch,USA JieWang,UniversityofMassachusettsLowell,USA ProgramCommitteeMembers: EricAllender,RutgersUniversity,USA BernardChazelle,PrincetonUniversity,USA DannyZ.^ Chen,UniversityofNotreDame,USA JianerChen,TexasA&MUniversity,USA FrancisChin,UniversityofHongKong,China Kyung-YongChwa,KoreaAdvancedInstituteofScience&Technology,Korea RodDowney,VictoriaUniversityofWellington,NewZealand ErichGr¨adel,AachenUniversityofTechnology,Germany StevenHomer,BostonUniversity,USA ToshihideIbaraki,KyotoUniversity,Japan TaoJiang,UniversityofCaliforniaatRiverside,USA Ker-IKo,StateUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook,USA D. T. Lee,AcademyofScience,Taiwan XueminLin,UniversityofNewSouthWales,Australia MauriceNivat,UniversityofParis,France R. Ravi,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA R¨udigerReischuk,UniversityofLub ¨eck,Germany SeinosukeToda,NihonUniversity,Japan LushengWang,CityUniversityofHongKong,China GuoliangXue,UniversityofVermont,USA MihalisYannakakis,BellLabs,USA Referees: DoritAharonov GuojunLi C. K. Poon KlausAmbos-Spies XueLi JohnShepherd DouglasBridges YanjunLi AmitabhSinha MarekChrobak YifanLi S.^ Skiena XiaotieDeng WeifaLiang MichaelTrick BjarniHalldorsson ShuangLuan KlausWagner PatrickHealy CatherineMcCartin C. A. Wang JohnHine AnilNerode WenpingWang YingpingHuang OjasParekh XiaodongWu XiaohuaJia Chong-DaePark BaogangXu Ming-YangKao Jung-HeumPark YuanshengYang JochenKonemann KunsooPark DongmoZhang TableofContents ComplexityTheory Complete Problems for Valiant’s Class of qp-Computable Families of Polynomials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Markus Bl¨ aser Log-Space Constructible Universal Traversal Sequences 4. 03 for Cycles of LengthO(n ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Michal Kouck´ y On Universally Polynomial Context-Free Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Nicholas Tran Separating Oblivious and Non-oblivious BPs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Kazuo Iwama, Yasuo Okabe, Toshiro Takase Program Schemes, Queues, the Recursive Spectrum and Zero-One Laws. . .^ 39 Iain A. Stewart Algebraic Properties for P-Selectivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 LaneA. Hemaspaandra,HaraldHempel,ArfstNickelsen Parallelizability of Some P-Complete Geometric Problems in the EREW-PRAM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Carla Denise Castanho, Wei Chen, Koichi Wada, Akihiro Fujiwara ComputationalBiology Enhanced Sequence Reconstruction with DNA Microarray Application. . . . 64 Samuel A. Heath, Franco P. Preparata Non-approximability of Weighted Multiple Sequence Alignment. . . . . . . . . .
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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